Student-Led Conferences: Using Portfolios to Share Learning with Parents Book

Based on extensive classroom testing, this comprehensive guide shows teachers how to use student-led conferences to help students take responsibility for their own learning, evaluate their own work and set their own goals. Filled with personal reflections from students, teachers and parents, the book offers advice on how to approach school administration, anticipate questions from parents, and organize a parent orientation night. The book includes tools to help prepare students in grades 1 through 8 for the conference, many blackline masters, as well as useful sections on the importance and organization of student portfolios, assessment, evaluation and reflection.